Comments on: It Was Never About The Money, Stupid

By: jorge.cortell.net » Censura, estado policial, y motivos subyacentes

jorge.cortell.net » Censura, estado policial, y motivos subyacentes — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:56:57 +0000

[...] los objetivos y los medios no se consensuan, sino que se asumen (como las discográficas asumiendo erróneamente que los que comparten música lo hacen por dinero) y se imponen (en lo que va de año más de [...]

By: It’s Not About ‘Free,’ It’s About Sharing « waweru.net

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:52:51 +0000

[...] by arguing that the 'free' part frames the discussion totally incorrectly. Instead, he notes, it's all about sharing, and was never about the money. He explains by analogy: In a future where the Earth has been [...]

By: bears in the woods

bears in the woods — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:40:00 +0000

With the non-bottled water, there is also always the chance that there is an animal shitting somewhere upstream, and you can get sick or even die…

By: coolguy77

coolguy77 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:17:00 +0000

99 cents IS NOT CHEAP!! Maybe if you’re a fool who buys one song a week then cool. But people usually want more than one song. and those 99 cents can add up. Whoever started this blog is a dope

By: Plauché: Indie & Traditional Publishing, Ebooks, and More

Plauché: Indie & Traditional Publishing, Ebooks, and More — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:04:37 +0000

[...] “It Was Never About The Money, Stupid” by Rick Falkvinge (TorrentFreak) [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:20:00 +0000

Copyright is ridiculous in the form it currently has. The only real way for the copyright holders to maintain their control without sending us back into the pre-internet age is to institute mind control since the brain is a copying device. You cannot simultaneously support this insane system and argue that copyright holders do not also own our memories. If they do not own our memories they cannot be said to own any of the copies of information that are produced, even if it is by them. Why should an artist be entitled to make money producing art of any kind? Are they worse off if they have to do something else to avoid starving? It is not as if many of the more famous artists of the classical period were not also engineers or practitioners of what we would call science in the modern era. What we need to ensure is that artists are given credit for their work, not that they or a cabal of financiers have control over distribution channels.

By: RIAA got RICK'rolld...haha

RIAA got RICK'rolld...haha — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:18:00 +0000

Rick, three words.

YOU. ARE. AWESOME.

By: The Dude

The Dude — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:45:00 +0000

I feel as though we’re in the dark ages of the internet… it’s very depressing. I dream of a future without copyright.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:42:00 +0000

Would also like to add that everyone D/L may have diffrent reasons.

I have D/L mostly stuff because of

1. It does not air or sell here.

2. I have been online since the bbs time and have a lot of friends around the world and if we chat and all talk about the new “X” I want to be in that discussion too but it can be up to 6 months before I can get “X”. Its getting better and better nowdays.

I don´t think I am right when I D/L and don´t pay if I have played a whole game or listen to a album a lot and try to buy it and I still think I spend more then most as said it is often so that ppl that pirate are more intressded so they also buy more.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:04:00 +0000

I like to buy music and games and movies but I don´t like how the big companys act.

In Sweden I have to pay a fee for every GB HDD or empty CD even though I will only put my own pictures or music or movies on it. Why should I do that many wonders and with that say to themselves well then I have paid and can download too because I have payed a fee.

I personally like to pay for a godd game or music etc but then I want a good service.
Nowdays in gaming industry they put a lot of new rules

1. Need to be online to start my game which means that when I go on vacation I can´t play it.

2. If I play the game and want to sell it then they force a fee on the one buying it to reactivate it.

3. Installs diffrent rootkits and DRM´s that most ppl don´t know about and can stop where the companys can invade my privacy.

I would love to buy directly from the artist and think that for example Itunes seems to have find a service that works but I think it would be even better if artists started up their own service.

We should not forget that the same lables and companys steal when thay can like for instance read about how Sqaure/Enix got the studio GRIN to go under just buy not paying for work they already had done.

Many of the artists also seem to think they have a right to exist well maybe you are not good enough as said higher up sometimes you go to a boring job to pay the bills and then you create as a hobby and if you are lucky you can make a living out of it but its not a right to do that.

Who really owns the stuff anyway? Who came upp with the c accord? Is that his/her property then that all musichans steal?

Everything goes forward and you got to run if you want to stay in the race.

Imho its about big companys trying to go around laws and censor the information exchange and thats bad.

And why can´t I return media I don´t like. Maybe the new record is something totally diffrent and I don´t like it. This game for instance Braveheart was unplayble and ubi even stole a piratecrack to fix their game but still I could not return the games.

The creative bit is complaining with some good points but they still want special rules that don´t apply anywhere else.

Big companys labels and artists steal every day from smaller ones but the small ones can´t fight back and go to court so even though piracy is not ok do not throw balls of steel in a rubber house.